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Jeffrey M. Pilcher: Tamales or Timbales: Cuisine and the Negotiation of Mexican National Identity, 1821 - 1911
 
Jonathan Harris: An English Utilitarian Looks at Spanish American Independence: Jeremy Bentham's "Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria"
 
Luis Valenzuela: The Copper Smelting Company "Urmenta y Errazuriz" of Chile: An Economic Profile, 1860-1880
 
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz: Archival Report: The End of the 1824 Chumash Revolt in Alta California: Father Vicente Sarría's Account

Book Reviews

Brian S. Bauer and David S. P. Dearborn: Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes: The Cultural Origins of Inca Sky Watching, reviewed by R. Tom Zuidema

Laura Graham: Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil, reviewed by Elmer S. Miller

Fray Diego Durán: The History of the Indies of New Spain, reviewed by Susan Schroeder

Atilio Boron: State Capitalism and Democracy in Latin America, reviewed by Brian Loveman

Evelyn Huber and Frank Safford, eds.: Agrarian Structure and Political Power: Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America, reviewed by Cliff Welch

Hugo Biagini: Intelectuales y políticos españoles a comienzos de la immigración masiva, reviewed by Jose C. Moya

Jean-Pierre Berthe, ed.: Las nuevas memorias del Capitán Jean de Monségur, reviewed by Murdo J. MacLeod

Mario Humberto Ruz: Un rostro encubierto: Los indios dell Tabasco colonial, reviewed by Eric Van Young

Iván Molina Jiménez and Steven Palmer: Heroes al Gusto y Libros de Moda: Sociedad y cambio cultural en Costa Rica, 1750-1900 and El Paso del Cometa: Estado, política social y culturas populares en Costa Rica, 1800-1950, reviewed by Julie A. Charlip

Kenneth J. Andrien: The Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830: The State and Regional Development, reviewed by Victor M. Uribe

Robert H. Jackson: Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians, reviewed by Robert M. Senkewicz

Donald Cutter, ed.: Writings of Mariano Payeras, reviewed by Robert M. Senkewicz

Ronaldo Vainfas: A Heresia dos Indios: Catolicismo e rebeldia no Brasil colonial, reviewed by Alida C. Metcalf

David McCreey: Rural Guatemala, 1760-1940, reviewed by Wayne M. Clegern

Juan Francisco Manzano: The Autobiography of a Slave; Autobiografía de un esclavo, reviewed by Robert L. Paquette

Donald Cutter, trans.: The Defenses of Northern New Spain: Hugo O'Conner's Report to Teodoro de Croix, July 22, 1777, reviewed by Charles W. Polzer, S.J.

Francisco Castillo Meléndez, Luisa J. Figallo Pérez, and Ramón Serrera Contreras, eds.: Las Cortes de Cádiz y la Imagen de América: La Visión Etnográfica y Geográfica del Nuevo Mundo, reviewed by Mario Rodríguez

Robert A. Potash: The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962-1973: From Frondizil's Fall to the Peronist Restoration, reviewed by Blair P. Turner

Sewall H. Menzel: Bullets vs. Ballots: Political Violence and Revolutionary War in El Salvador, 1979-1991, reviewed by Peter B. Gushue

Mark T. Berger: Under Northern Eyes: Latin American Studies and U.S. Hegemony in the Americas, 1898-1990, reviewed by Jules R. Benjamin

Paul G. Buchanan: Labor, State, and Capital: Democratizing Class Relations in the Southern Cone, reviewed by Hobart A. Spalding

Ernest Bartell and Leigh A. Payne, eds.: Business and Democracy in Latin America, reviewed by Laura Randall

Phillip Berryman: Stubborn Hope: Religion, Politics, and Revolutions in Central America, reviewed by Anna Adams


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